page_title: Marischal College
section_title: University of Aberdeen
hierarchical_section_title: Marischal College / University of Aberdeen
caption_attribution_description: English: The construction of Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland.Українська: Коледж Марішаль.
context_page_description: Marischal College is a large granite building on Broad Street in the centre of Aberdeen in north-east Scotland, and since 2011 has acted as the headquarters of Aberdeen City Council. However, the building was constructed for and is on long-term lease from the University of Aberdeen, which still uses parts of the building to house a museum. Today, it provides corporate office space and public access to council services, adjacent to the Town House, the city's historic seat of local government. Many Aberdonians consider Marischal College to be an icon of the "Granite City" and to symbolise the zenith of Aberdeen's granite-working industry.
  The construction of the modern college building began in 1835, following the demolition of previous buildings on the site, and was completed in its present form in the early 1900s. It is the second largest granite building in the world. Formerly the seat of the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen founded in 1593, the building was retained by the unified University of Aberdeen which was created in 1860 by the merger of Marischal College and King's College.
context_section_description: The University of Aberdeen was created after the merger of Marischal College and King's College, Aberdeen in 1860 under the terms of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858.
  The following extract refers to this merger:
  "Universities of Kings College and Marischal College, Aberdeen.  First Report of the Commissioners, 1838. 1837–38.  Vol. XXXIII, 75p. [123] Chairman: Lord John Cunninghame.
  The commissioners were in favour of a merger of the two colleges despite opposition from Kings College. They considered the unification as essential for the educational system of Northern Scotland although they disagreed with the proposed method of merger laid down by the last commission. The buildings of Marischal College were in very bad repair but new ones were under construction.  Additions had been made in 1827 to Kings College buildings which were in a tolerable state of repair."  Throughout the 20th century, Marischall college housed all sciences and medicine.  Since about 1960, the college housed the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Medical school.
  The building standing today, which replaced a number of older structures, was constructed between 1837 and 1844 by Aberdeen architect Archibald Simpson. This 1837 building formed a U-shaped quadrangle, with a small entrance via an archway amidst unrelated housing on the west side. The building was substantially extended between 1893 and 1905 by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, and with its new "granite cage" front, enclosing the quadrangle, it became the second-largest granite building in the world (exceeded only by the Escorial Palace near Madrid).
caption: Marischal College with the new front under construction; circa 1900
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